Motor Vehicles Act 1949
33ZOffence by body corporate
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33Z Offence by body corporate (1) A body corporate that facilitates the avoidance of demerit points by natural persons commits an offence. (2) A body corporate facilitates the avoidance of demerit points by natural persons if the body fails, more than twice in a 3 year period, to identify the driver of a vehicle, under the control of the body corporate, involved in the commission of a demerit points offence detected by a traffic infringement detection device.
Motor Vehicles Act 1949 53 (3) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) if the body corporate: (a) had taken all reasonable steps to ensure it would be in a position to identify the driver of a vehicle under its control should a demerit points offence be committed; and (b) failed to identify the driver in the relevant instance because of exceptional circumstances.